DC Nightlife Noise

What You Can Do

about nightclub noise in DC

Call ABRA (202) 442-4423 or e-complain
on ABRA webpage http://dcforms.dc.gov/webform/abra-e-complaint-form every time you hear club noise. Even
if
you do not want them to come into your home in the middle of the night
(which
is an enforcement protocol we are trying to change), you can urge them
to go to
the offending club and order them to turn down the sound or shut the
doors. If you don't know the offending club (as in Dupont Club
Central), say so.

Call the police at 311 to report individual noise violators,
specific nightclubs, plastic bucket drummers. If 311 fails to
connect you to a responsible party, call 911 as a last resort.

Write to the Mayor, ABRA Director Moosally, Police Chief
Lanier,
and DCRA Director. Tell them how
the noise is affecting you, and demand that they enforce the law.
Their contact points are:

Note: other asssociations with
alcohol noise issues are welcome to join this list.

Take your smart phone with a soundmeter app to the nightclub where
you hear music regularly and record the sound level in dB. Your phone
is not official but it is reasonably accurate from 50dB (conversation)
to about 80 dB (far too loud for near residences). Note your estimate
of how much louder the sound is than normal conversation. Use those
numbers in your complaints and letters to the authorities.